Five of Pentacles
The Five of Pentacles represents complete collapse and hitting rock bottom, whether through personal mistakes or circumstances beyond your control. Though it depicts profound loss of wealth, home, and connections, the card also offers hope through the small light filtering down, suggesting that accepting defeat can reveal true needs and provide an opportunity for renewal. The bitter lessons of humility strip away everything that once held power over you, allowing you to gather the bare essentials and begin again from a place of authentic understanding.
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The Image of Desolation
A lonely, unfortunate person lies on the ground, appearing lifeless or simply too exhausted to rise. The figure has lost everything: wealth, home, friends. A half-built wall only partially protects him from the elements. Yet small particles of light from a stained glass window slowly descend into the man's open palm. Wrapped tightly in a cloak—the last of his worldly possessions—he silently waits for the end without pleading.
Warning of Complete Collapse
A troubling card, the Five of Pentacles warns of complete collapse. This may result from either your own misguided behavior in a situation or a random turn of circumstances. Either way, you have reached rock bottom and must simply accept your obvious defeat.
Lessons of Humility and True Needs
You will learn that the bitter lessons of humility expose your true needs. And this becomes a good opportunity. Everything that once held power over you has been leveled to the ground.
Beginning Again
Pull yourself together and gather what little is most necessary to start over again.
Visual Description
A nighttime scene shows an arched stained-glass window set into a dark stone wall, the panes arranged with five pentacle symbols. Beneath the window a cascade of pale sparkles or snow drifts down onto a lone figure in a red cloak collapsed against the ground. To the left a silhouetted tree breaks the horizon and behind the wall the sky swirls in warm yellow and orange tones. At the bottom of the image the title text reads "FIVE of PENTACLES."
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